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- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
- Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H. H. Williams
- When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
- Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
- Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
- Hob Broun
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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